Quotes About Ego

There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

One of my problems is to find the Ego, which has only one form and is immortal - to find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live.

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.